Strategy Our Next Senior Coach: 2019 & Beyond... is Matthew Nicks

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A thematic statement is different than a statement to cite a source , maybe I'm one of the people wearing a tin foil hat? what does it matter as the difference is I'm merely posting on an open forum by being noncommittal so interpretation can be delivered however the reader chooses. People who Cite a source are seeking attention by claiming they are of significant importance to holding a so called "treasured fact".
Or they’re simply sharing genuine info from someone they trust to not just be talking crap. The info may not be right, it may have been right at the time and something changed but just because someone is sharing the info doesn’t make them attention seekers.
 
The amount of groupthink on here regarding potential coaches is pretty absurd.

Nicks being at Port for quite a while in an assistant role when they weren’t that great doesn’t mean a whole lot.

Yze working under Clarkson also doesn’t mean a whole lot.

End of the day, a senior coaching role is a completely different kettle of fish, and some thrive almost immediately (best recent example of this is Fagan) and some completely fail (best recent example is Bolton).

Note: Fagan and Bolton both came from the Clarkson coaching factory. It means virtually nothing.


None of us are in a position to have enough info to know if the correct choice is Yze, Nicks or someone else. Maybe if Yze was in charge at Hawthorn for the last 2 years they would be bottom 4? Maybe if Nicks was in charge at Port instead of Ken, Port would be a juggernaut? Maybe they’re both amazing future head coaches? Maybe they’re both awful?


I think we need a coach who doesn’t instruct players to move the ball slowly, who empowers players to back themselves in to take the game on, who has a team of assistants around him that he actually trusts and who have the ability to adapt to various scenarios that unfold on game day, and who can inspire and rebuild trust in a playing group who are in desperate need of inspiration.

I want a coach who gives us a hard edge, who believes in tagging the best opposition mid out of the game, who connects with players and builds close relationships with the playing group, and has the players playing FOR him, every week, without fail.

Is that Yze? Is that Nicks? How the hell would we know? Let em pick someone, and we’ll back them in and no doubt commence judging their performance in early 2020.

Next year isn’t about winning the flag (we have virtually zero hope of even making the finals with the way our list will look by November), it’s about rebuilding a broken club and creating an environment that players actually want to be around.

Fagan managed to achieve this recently at Brisbane when all looked lost, and now they look set to challenge for a premiership from 2020-2023. That’s the blueprint.

And correct me if I'm wrong but Fagan never actually played football ??
 

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Ok, I'm on the Yze train. Although untried his resume looks solid and strategy and skills are a major deficiency of ours. But if Campo, Burton and Hart are anywhere near this train it'll be a short return trip. We won't make any progress

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I have no opinions on Yze one way or the other but I don't really get the strategy area that many are talking about as the main focus. I think this is perfect for the assistant coaches or senior assistant to deal with. When we brought in Pyke, this was an area he was strong in and whilst it didn't feel that way over the past couple of seasons, that was his strength at WCE and what we credited him for in 2016 and 2017. Pyke's let down was his player management skills from all reports and I think that's what should be our main focus of whoever our new coach is. If he can't talk to the players, make those personal connections and know how to motivate them/get them thinking on unison then it won't matter how brilliant he is tactically as it just won't work.

Yze might just be the guy that can talk to the players like this and make those personal connections, I don't know. I just think the reasons many are liking coach x or y are for the wrong reasons as those areas won't be the main reason whether the coach suceeds or fails.
 
I have no opinions on Yze one way or the other but I don't really get the strategy area that many are talking about as the main focus. I think this is perfect for the assistant coaches or senior assistant to deal with. When we brought in Pyke, this was an area he was strong in and whilst it didn't feel that way over the past couple of seasons, that was his strength at WCE and what we credited him for in 2016 and 2017. Pyke's let down was his player management skills from all reports and I think that's what should be our main focus of whoever our new coach is. If he can't talk to the players, make those personal connections and know how to motivate them/get them thinking on unison then it won't matter how brilliant he is tactically as it just won't work.

Yze might just be the guy that can talk to the players like this and make those personal connections, I don't know. I just think the reasons many are liking coach x or y are for the wrong reasons as those areas won't be the main reason whether the coach suceeds or fails.

Agree that strategy isn't the only criteria for success but the ever allusive *ahem* 'plan B' would be nice for a change. A fluid game plan that reacts to what's unfolding. Anyhow, no new coach will make effective improvement unless the old boys are gone. Seems to me there had never been a better time to clear the decks and refresh. We'll know soon enough if the AFC are truly listening to players and supporters or just pi**ing in our pockets
 
I'm only a supporter, and I can only imagine how demoralising it must be for a player to lose a grand final. Almost reaching the summit of that mountain and getting thrown right back down again. That day in 2017 hurts more and more as I realise just how far away we are from another grand final.

To think that we were in front at quarter time and now half our list is moving on and we're scraping around looking for a senior coach who's not taken. The mountain looms in front of us.
 

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Yeah, they loved him at Peel ...
you can't just generalize like that and say he was a failure in every senior position and everyone hated him etc.
every coach is deslike by people within the club, even clarko was seriously disliked the fisrt few years by many supporters and players.
 
you can't just generalize like that and say he was a failure in every senior position and everyone hated him etc.
every coach is deslike by people within the club, even clarko was seriously disliked the fisrt few years by many supporters and players.
Only the results say he was a failure
 
you can't just generalize like that and say he was a failure in every senior position and everyone hated him etc.
every coach is deslike by people within the club, even clarko was seriously disliked the fisrt few years by many supporters and players.
And you said he wasn’t a failure in any of those positions
 
So I'm getting the vibe that it will be Nicks/Yze as head coach with Whiskers and (?) Pods involved somehow.

All of this will come to naught however if Burton/Campo (and to a lesser extent - Hart) remain.

Would be great if Chapman took this transition as his final bow and ****ed off too.

However this is AFC, so I have no faith that we do this with any success.
 
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